Experts Warn of China’s Near-Monopoly on Freight Container Production, Threatening Global Supply Chain: It's ‘deeply concerning’ China produces 95% of world’s shipping containers

Epoch Times ^ | 04/17/2022 | Shawn Lin

[catbertz]

Not at my two local Los Angeles Walmart. Maybe yours is part of a new distribution depot test, using their existing property?

[metmom]

Some of this problem could be resolved if, while others besides China are making items, they actually designed and made them to be durable and easy and inexpensive to repair.

We have become way too wasteful a society where the emphasis is on buying something new and tossing the old, all the while complaining about landfill space and recycling.

Make stuff to last instead of with planned obsolescence. It’ll save money and natural resources.

[pepsionice]

At some point at the end of 2021, some news team showed a LA freight yard with around one-thousand containers....all empty. They figured within a 20-mile circle, there were probably forty of these yards....all filling up with empty containers.

If you asked me....there’s probably a one-thousand percent overage of these containers existing around the globe already.

[buwaya]

Overall there is a massive global glut of empty containers. The real problem us getting all these back to China. Which is difficult due to the terms of trade China has insisted on.

I think China can be rather quickly sidelined as a manufacturing center if the threat of supply chain disruptions due to single sourcing becomes bad enough.

It will be a problem for a while (2-3 years, depending), but there are a lot of countries wanting a piece of China’s manufacturing action.

[buwaya]

The problem isnt the overall supply of containers, because there is a massive global glut of them, but rather the supply of them specifically in China. China uses lots of them to ship their stuff out, but doesnt get as many back because they dont import much that uses containers.

Making more of them in the US is pointless.

[Gaffer]

Yes...their property. Largely unused parking out past the outdoors section. It was overbuilt for the size of my town, I think. They may have just decided it’s better to have on hand all the stuff they run out of that’s not perishable

[ptsal]

The globalists sold their (our) future.

[eartick]

Eggs meet basket

[MrKatykelly]

Much ado about nothing, China has a trade surplus with everybody, except a few oil exporters, so everybody has a surplus of empty containers. They’re the same as cardboard boxes except harder to dispose.

[BiglyCommentary]

“How hard is it to make a metal box?”

BINGO! They act as if this is some advanced technology the CHICOMS have vaulted ahead in.

[GaltAdonis]

"...How hard is it to make a metal box? ..."

Yeah - the Chinese can handle it.
Heck, they've got to have something to make.
It's not like they're too busy making Personal computers,
or cell phones, or air conditioners, or shoes, or anything else
'unimportant' - like cement or pork....

The West has stupidly outsourced the production
of way too much of EVERYTHING.
So why not shipping containers also?

That probably no longer even matters at this point.

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Yeah, I know the chart is 11 years old - so do you think
that the situation has gotten any better in the last 11 years?
Probably not, IMO.

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Link to article that is the source of this chart -

https://www.theatlantic.com/china/archive/2013/08/chinas-dominance-in-manufacturing-in-one-chart/278366/

[Sirius Lee]

Dumb ass Free Traitors act as if it’s China’s fault nobody makes anything anymore.

It's funny how in the past week the MSM is suddenly sounding the alarm on china after years of poo xi pooing it for decades and going to hysterical lengths to tamp down criticism of the chicoms during the Trump administration.

I guess the Davos cabal/deep state gave the mockingbirds a new memo.

[PIF]

The whole transition to a “service economy” was B. Clinton’s idea. Part of the foundation for destroying the USA.

[PIF]

Create Jobs for Americans!
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The only way that happens is to have more workers and, as long as the Welfare State exists, there not only won’t be more workers, but less.

[FarCenter]

A local Target has about 35 containers in the back of their lot. They are most likely storage that doesn’t fit in the store’s footprint.

[mewzilla]

Meanwhile, what's the deal with the Ports America sale...

Canada's CPPIB to buy Ports America from Oaktree to further infrastructure push

Watchdog raises concern about Canadian pension investments in China

FMC Commissioners Call for Review of Ports America Sale to Canada

And I'll just toss this one in for giggles...

CMA CGM Buys Port of Los Angeles Terminal it Sold in 2017

Wondering if the French are fronting for the ChiComs.

[Chickensoup]

Walmart has the best and most responsive logistics in the world. If they have changed their logistics patterns they see something.

[Chickensoup]

like. Until we end welfare. Takes hungry people to work in sweatshops

[EEGator]

And how many skill sets are lost?

[EEGator]

How many steel mills do we have?
Seriously asking.